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#46 The Sunday New York Times

Mornings are exceptionally important to white people, as witnessed by their love of breakfast places. However, some white people never go out for breakfast on a Sunday Morning. The reason? The Sunday edition of the New York Times.

A perfect white sunday generally works like this. Wake up at around 8:45, if the paper is delivered, then one walks to the front door, retrieves the paper and begins a pot of coffee. If the paper is not delivered, a white person will go out and usually buy the supplies needed for breakfast – bagels, orange juice, lox, cream cheese, or waffle mix. Some white people even pick up freshly brewed coffee with the paper!

Once coffee, food, and the newspaper have been procured, white people put on extra mellow music (Jazz, Classical, or for the cooler ones in the bunch, ambient trip hop or something along those lines). They then procede to read each section of the paper, stopping periodically to tell their partner about the interesting news they have just seen. “Looks like another civil war might break out in Africa,” “did you see that the Met is doing Tristan and Isolde?”

White couples usually fight over who gets to read the Sunday Magazine first. How do we know this? They will tell us repeatedly about how they always fight over the Sunday magazine.

The secret you may not know, is that deep down, all white people are desperately trying to make their life seem like an ad for a Sub Zero refrigerator, or an article in Gourmet/Bon Appetit magazine. To achieve either of these goals will set white people at ease.

But note well, that the sports section will always remain perfectly creased and unread, unless they have a teenage son. So on Monday morning, if you need to impress your coworkers, choose to talk about something you read in the Book Review section, the magazine, or Sunday Style.

All white people are expected to do this. You are given an exemption during your early college years, but by age 22 it is pretty much law.

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In my experience, I notice the whites also like to bring the Sunday NYT to parks around New York and act like they’re reading it. They’re not. They’re using it to show off. This is further evidenced by the enormous backlog of unread Sunday papers (and NYT Magazines) under coffee tables of whites across the city.

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I’m so white and cool that I read the Sunday NYT online on my Mac laptop as my husband does the same thing across the table from me on his laptop and we listen to cool music–soul, staxx records, or anything else we feel like…on vinyl.

Oh Jake, the hyper-consumerism and need for coolness cross lines of sexuality…

One wonders how reading the sunday paper is going to play out in the future as circulation goes down, new media goes up, and the pressure to not waste paper increases among the yuppies about which you write…

I was with you for a while there, but living in the South I can tell you, you’re writing a blog about intellectualism, not race.

We got lotsa white people. NASCAR is the order of the day, along with talking about Jesus and hatin’ on whatever’s not normal (gays, yes, but also canvas grocery bags). I think I know maybe 3 people here who have ever even heard of blogs. One of them is black.

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Hate to break the illusion… but the whole white population is not entirely filthy rich and does not soley live in the UK or Manhattan (gasp!)… if that were true, then yes, this blog might be right on the money.

Some people here are saying “It’s not just a white thing, it’s a class thing” but I’ve never even seen an upper class african american, cuban, or even your Italian guy for that matter read the times. lol.

Oops, Cancersticks, forgot to include you in the Crossword thread. I admire your tenacity. If I owned a book of 500 NYT crosswords for let’s say a year, I’d probably have finished two or three clues on the first one.

Cancersticks, T-Dot, and Kat. Very right. And if you can complete the Sunday NY Times crossword you get bragging rights. But this should be said subtly to co-workers over morning coffee, as in: “What did you do this weekend?” “…then on Sunday we sat around having brunch, drinking coffee, and I finished the Times crossword.” This of course never works for any other day of the week (especially Monday’s) or any other U.S. paper.

This is great, but you missed one of the most essential parts: deriding the local newspaper. Unless you happen to live in New York, it is very important for white people to show off the fact that they are more cultured than the people around them. They do this by reading high brow publications, mostly from New York, such as the New York Times and the New Yorker magazine.

When asked why they don’t read the local paper instead, white people will talk about how frustrated they get with the low quality of local reporting and the inaneness of local happenings compared to the more important world events covered in the Times.

I live at the pinnacle of whiteness where my family thinks that the NYT is too poorly written, and, in fact, no newspaper is good enough for us. We’re real, New England whites who have been in the US since the 17th century. I do like sports, though, and you can’t blame white people for not reading the sports section of the NYT because, unlike the rest of the paper in my opinion, it actually is legitimately crappy. The NYT knows that not many of its readers like sports and I think they consciously short that part of the paper. The Boston Globe on the other hand…

#51 Mike B: “my family thinks that the NYT is too poorly written and, in fact, no newspaper is good enough for us.”

I love that! It just made me realize that the funniest stuff on the blog entries and comments here is about snobbery and oneupmanship. If this site wasn’t called thingswhitepeoplelike more people would have as much fun reading it as I do.

Ah, see, what you missed was the alternate to NPR: the Sunday morning politics TV shows running in the background. This, of course, must include the ocassional break from reading to yell at the TV and is for those of us not white enough to eschew television altogether.

And you’re all right, it is about class, but thingsuppermiddleclassurbaniteswithivyleagueeducationslike.com is even more unweildy than the current address, don’t you think?

As a Yankee ex-pat in the Deep South I can tell you with absolute authority: there’s NOBODY as white as a New Englander, even a New Yorker’s not as white. Down here there are plenty of Caucasian-Americans but they’re not even as white as they think they are.

Its Funny Because Its True! When I have conversations with my White friends this is usually the point where I feel oddly excluded from some sort of NYT cult or religious ceremony or something. What I find crazy is when they combine their love for reading the NYT, Starbucks, eating outdoors, loving dogs and running or biking and turn Sunday into JAMBOREE! I wish they would take their coffee-drinking asses home. Often I pass by in our gas guzzling non-hybrid car and tskk loudly. My husband and I look at each other and say simultaneously, “WHITE PEOPLE!”

So whatever, this is so not a class thing. It is a white educated middle class thing “urbie” thang. I never read the NYT. I like CNN for my news – I am obviously African American…

We have a trendy neighborhood coffee shop that usually provides the NYT for its customers. I once asked if they had a copy of the NY Post…..big mistake. Jaws dropped as everyone looked at me as if I were some strange alien with 3 heads.

“The secret you may not know, is that deep down, all white people are desperately trying to make their life seem like an ad for a Sub Zero refrigerator, or an article in Gourmet/Bon Appetit magazine. To achieve either of these goals will set white people at ease.”

White people reading the NYT on Sunday mornings…? This blogger is giving away his age. My grandparents read the NYT on Sundays. I would not touch it with a ten foot pole cause I don’t want white guilt, socialist cooties.

I still can’t beleive they wrote that about John. We never thought they would do it. Wow they really hate republicans. No facts or evidence, just wrote it. Maybe we can get them to go after Hillary. Nah, too many white liberal readers. I need to call them and thank them. They never questions my politics. I promise everything and have nothing to show for it. I give speaches about change but don’t have any substance. THey really have given me a free ride. Maybe I won’t tax them when I start going after all those nasty companies. I mean, they are going down in readership so their sh!ttyness is sort of helping the environment, they are killing less trees. Besides, a homeless guys got to wipe his a$$ on something, it is not like I am going to help those bums. They want change, they can’t have dime, they don’t vote. I give you chnge, I will take your dollar give 70 cents to the gov’t and you can hve the rest. Heres your change…. CHANGE

@7 i think you missed the point
@8 you got the worst of both worlds
@15 of course you’re not a racist…or funny…or clever
@17 them’s the kinda white people i know! you summed up this entire blog in the first sentece of your Comment.

There’s a recurring comment along the lines of, “These aren’t white behaviors, these are educated, liberal, east coast white behaviors.” That’s true, but it is doubly white of the author(s) to assume that members of their tiny demographic represent all the other whites in the U.S. So they are racking up whiteness points.

as an honorary white (i’m actually korean), i think i’m not wrong when i say it’s then acceptable to re-use the blue plastic bag the paper arrives in to scoop up dog poo. also, the sunday magazine is great for showing off on the monday morning commute on the subway.

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Hilariously true for us; although, I’m Nuyorican (does that make me white? I’m light; but is light white? not sure…).

For us, it’s The San Francisco Chronicle not the NY Times (Guess where we live… I do get the NYTimes online) and both my husband & I read the Sports section (Go Monta!, Go Baron!).
It’s the first thing he goes for (no question about him; he is definitely white: Dutch-German heritage, blond, blue-eyed).

The music is definitely trippy ambient or light classical and the coffee is brewing in the foreground…. too funny!

Oh and don’t forget — even if you don’t live in a Manhattan penthouse (with weird modern furniture, a high-efficiency fridge full of organic food, and a small dog, of course), you’re supposed to act like it.

Of course I’m white otherwise I wouldn’t be reading this. Yes I used to buy the Times on Sundays. Now it’s at some ridiculous price so I stopped. I always say now that I have the internet . . . when asked. But the fact is I only browse and rapidly at that the headlines and then move on to whatever. Thank God for the price and the Internet because now I don’t have to fake reading all that crap.

I’ve read the articles for a couple weeks now, and I think you’re just about out of ideas. I agree with a lot of the other posters – you’re talking about “middle-upper class, intellectual, cultured, often liberal, city dwellers”. It’s not really white people.

How could you have possibly left out Church! That’s the biggest part of Sunday for most rural white people like myself. I think you should rename your blog.

I’m white, but nothing here connects with me. I probably would recognize and enjoy the satire more if I were a liberal yuppy New Yorker, who, I presume are the only ones left who still read the New York Times.

But I must say that I do love Boston; even the “other white people” with shamrock or red sox tattoos, terrible accents, and giant inferiority complexes. I have none of these, but they are still better than Manhattan yuppies and borough d-bags.

Love reading the times on sunday morning and yes read the style sectin first while eating my H & H bagels and listening to NPR
there is nothing like NY on a sunday morning, or any other day of the week

not only am I white I was born in Europe…whoo hooo

keep the blog going, it is right on target and hilarious, we have to laugh these days, life is too hard

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Black people don’t even eat watermelon like that anymore!!
So whoever wrote that needs to do a bit more research and up there jokes and generalizations……it would be funnier if it actually applied to the generations after 1946! 🙂
” Thats all carry on!

So,
If I have been reading this blog for several weeks (OK, call it two) and I come upon the Sunday Styles article about “Why Blog? Reason #92: Book Deal” and I then think “oh, the Times always just that much too late with a story to be truly cutting-edge.” Does that make me guilty of a white-person crime?

I’m a Black American from New York who just spent a year in Scotland. I must say the Guardian never did it for me. It felt more like the NewYork Newsday, too local. The Times of London, Financial Times (love that peachy colour!) and The Scotsman (actually the best of bunch) were what you would find me buried under as I scarfed down donuts from GREGGS at the Uni cafe.

I started the reading the NYTimes everyday (especially the Magazine, and Book Review) when I graduated from my college and realised I didn’t know ANYTHING. Holy Crap! So NYT, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Weekly Standard, Z Magazine and Commentary became the order of the day until I could sufficiently FAKE IT.

OMG! I am such a white guy! I do open the sports section though, the last page is the auto page, and I always like to read about the latest volvo or subaru. This week it was about a Scion….talk about alternative!

What point is this article trying to get accross? That white people do things differently? Is there going to be a follow up article about how African Americans, Hispanics, or even Asians, do things in the morning? I personaly being half and half ( white and balck) think that this is offensive to both. I mean really if the Columbus Telegram isn’t delivered to our hose, my mom (who is white) doesn’t go out and buy breakfast iteams, no instead we watch the Television. And my dad (who is black) will check his email. So if you want to read this article and sterotype white people that’s fine. But let me remind you, not everybody in the United States of America reads or even recieves the New York Times.

P.S. the Columbus which I am talking about is in Nebraska. And in Nebraska we have modern technology, and people from all over the world come to our Medical Center to learn about the various advancments we have made in the medical world.

I absolutely agree with you. I can’t believe people are falling over themselves over this. It’s almost reverse racism-smugly implying that “we” have all these nice things, like Apple computers and organic food and leisure time because we’re white people and you’re not.

Yeah, except everyone in the class tends to be white. While there simply have to be African-Americans and Latinos who exhibit these same traits, I can’t find them anywhere. Am I just not hanging out at enough Paneras?

the blog is stereotyping white people. in fact this whole site is and could be considered “racist” for saying that ALL WHITE PEOPLE : have apple computers, read the NY times, eat CREAM CHEESE AND LOX BAGELS EVERY SUNDAY MORNING (hmm…whats another food stereotype..maybe…watermelon and fried chicken?)

Don’t lament. I only get the paper so all my neighbors will think I’m smart. Once inside, I toss it away and go back to listening to classic rock (How can you not want to hear “More than a Feeling” six times an hour?). Of course, with most of the homes on my block in foreclosure, the paper is no longer having its intended effect.

Soon 2B, you have my vote! Why? Because I’m looking for change. Not any real substantive change, just the appearance of change. I admire you because you’re just like President Kennedy- good looking and overrated. While you are not my new bicycle, you’d definitely be my new snowboard; that is, if I snowboarded or used to snowboard or something like that.

Your garbage is my life. I’m white, and I love the Sunday New York Times. My favorite is the book review. Of course I work in a bookstore. This is a perfect job for a white person because I can remain poor while at the same time pretend that I’m more intelligent and worthy than my wealthy customers. And I can read the Sunday New York Times at work! I’m sure everything I just stated is mentioned elsewhere in this blog because, well, it pretty much knows what white people, like me, like.

This blog is stereotyping *liberals*. But if it was called “Stuff Liberals Like”, it would be just another snarky political blog. “Stuff White People Like” makes it a social blog instead, and is much more likely to generate traffic.

Shifting gears: another future post for SWPL: “Correcting Others’ Grammar”. (Example: in the above post, “procede” should be spelled PROCEED. See what I did there?)

After this, mention that the only times crossword that you can complete is the Monday edition (the easiest one). Say that you could never do the other days’ crosswords, they’re too hard for you. You will really impress them with your knowledge about crosswords.

Ha yes, you HAVE to include the crossword, that is key. But I would agree with most that this is only about a certain class of whites, but I live in NYC, so I find it humorous. And who cares about the rest of the country! And I am white, not exactly affluent, but everyone knows this type of person (usually white), and if they said “stuff rich people like” just wouldnt be as funny.

Okay, to all of the people citing racism and claiming SWPL to be terribly off-base: This is a joke and it’s quite funny. I’m pretty sure that the author of this blog is white. (Could be wrong, this is what my ‘research’ indicates.) No, these generalizations don’t apply to all ‘white’ people, or even most of them. It’s more Yuppie Liberal Whiteys living on either coast. But that’s not as funny when you title it that way. This is not racism–it’s hilarious and it degrades no one. We need more tongue in cheek pop culture humor like this.

Note: White people like to claim insights about “pop culture” and discuss their analysis with other presumptive white people.

1. The sports page is *only* uncreased during Grand Slam tennis events (especially Wimbledon) and the Tour de France.

2. White people who’ve resided in London will also accept The Guardian as a substitute to the NY Times. If both papers are obtained for Sunday morning consumption, then you’re whiter than Casper the ghost.

This whole website would be considered racist if it was called “what black people like”, I am getting sick and tired of the double standard. Also, if it was about what black people like the NAACP, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, etal would be investigating along with the ACLU and filing a lawsuit. I am a white person (“typical white person” according to Obama’s recent comments in his televised speech, and I don’t like half the things listed in this so called survey.

As one of the “cooler” white people who puts on “ambient trip-hop or something” on Sunday morning (after exiting my time machine, now parked in 1996), I’d like to make a prediction and say that the obsession with the NY Times Magazine will soon become a developmental milestone that you have to leave in your early twenties. For white people, it’s an intermediate phase that should come after the overly-affected late high school/early college interests (Kerouac/Bukowski…a pedestrian interest in jazz, etc) and before a resigned interest in finance. As for the difficulty of the Sunday crossword puzzle, fgi. Fucking google it.

I remember the NYT national tv advertising campaign a few years ago showing the oh-so-sophisticated Sunday Times readers talking about “Sunday morning is my time with the New York Times.” Trouble was, out here in flyover country, a who lot of people go to church on Sunday, often before they tackle the Sunday paper; and these ads just reinforced the perception of New Yorkers as self-absorbed, Godless snobs. I wonder if the NYT ever understood that.

Okay, I have to disagree with sc WAY, WAY the hell up there.. if there were a site called ‘stuff black people like’ it would be perfectly okay as long as the writers were black.. I think similar theme has been proven in projects by Dave Chapell, BET Comedy Jam, and Chris Rock.

There seems to be a universal rule that applies here: For the sake of comedic relief, anyone can state any degrading, oppressing, stereotypical opinion they want about their OWN race and it is considered acceptable.. Here’s where a bi-racial comedian has a clear advantage over the average aspiring comedian. The bi-racial comedian can acceptably and mercilessly poke fun at either of his races as long as he doesn’t pit them against one another.

You guys are so right. Which reminds me of another thing white people like – starring at something completely obvious and then stating it like they are the first to notice. They also like being condescending. Nothing is better than setting up a strawman argument and knocking the hell out of it. Oh, and white people also like being sensitive. I believe your race sensitivity has been dealt with elsewhere in this blog. Way to stay true to form.

they must not be white, cause # 50 clearly dictates that if you are white you must like irony. if you do not like irony, you are not white. please, would everyone comment back at this and say, “i am white and i dont like irony so HAH! your wrong!” That would make me feel so bad about my statements and then I would have to retract them.

True. We are just another tribe with “quaint” rituals. The tribe assumes they are above rituals, all of which are mentioned sooner or later here. It’s great. Takes PC off the pedestal. To quote another wp cliche…”Live and let live”

I see no reason for there to be an exemption on reading the Sunday Times until you’re 22.

I’m 21 now and I’ve been reading the Sunday Times in some form or another every weekend since 4th grade (I was in a gifted program mind you Post #16) including time I spent overseas Post #19 on my laptop Post #40.

As far as I’m concerned, any self respecting white person should be reading the Times. How else are they going to learn about other cultures Post #20?

I AGREE! WHITE FOLKS ARE SO DETERMINED TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE READING THE NEW YORK TIMES THAT THEY’RE DOING THAT ALL THE WAY OVER HERE IN OXNARD, CALIFORNIA. WTF WEIRDOS… READ THE L.A. TIMES AT LEAST. STOP BEING SO PRETENTIOUS!

Im kind of slow like this…but it finally dawned on me…this blog is all about what LIBERALS like!! As a conservative Christian, I was wondering why I was only identifying with about 50% of these funny observations….duh….the other 50% I could identify with not because I am white but because I am affluent (who else has time to train for a marathon? I ran Boston last year, in New Balances, tshirts, and shorts 🙂 ) (PS..I don’t read the times…it is a liberal rag!)

Though, for any side (black, white, mixed, latino, asian) to get offended by them is to further fuel the shameless ignorance (and blatant bitterness) of these crafty bloggers. ..Who, if we really think about it, could actually spend all this LEISURE time WORKING (full-time, degree-required, credible jobs only), instead of belittleing and scorning everyone else who IS.
Leisureness is a concept that can only be understood by one who has worked hard and, therefore, understands the value and necessity of a day of rest.

I am black, late 20’s, I definitely enjoy the Sunday NYT (whenever I decide to pick up a copy of it, ..which doesn’t necessarily happen every Sunday). Sunday Styles, Travel, Arts and Leisure…. I don’t have a Mac, though I do enjoy taking my laptop out with me to the park/cafe to relax while working (some more).

What this blog is confusing with race, is actually about a finer quality of culture (especially in NYC). Not about skin color. It’s FREE! and open for anyone who dares to help themselves and improve their own lives. …And not expect free handouts, black-skin-pitty, or the delusional lottery-ticket win!

I forgot to mention that, if you’re NOT reading the NYT (or any other news paper for that matter), you’re missing out. It’s a perfect opportunity (a minute one out of many) to explore and learn a few things outside of one’s own personal culture/understandings/surroundings.

That’s something that should NOT be considered race-specific.

Reading, in general, is not a crime, you know?

If a larger percentage of (the less professionally-driven) black people could recite literary quotes, worthy political updates, etc as well as they can recite all the lyrics to the latest Lil’ Kim song, the wild gap between races would lie shallowly within the difference of skin pigmentation. ..Which, any intelligent person should know, isn’t much of a credible difference at all.

I agree that reading, or showing interest in literature, parks, lattes, or bagels is not and should not be characteristics of race. I personally, would never have looked this site up, nor if I stumbled across it, would I have opened the page. I was asked to take a look at it by (a most educated and cultured) relative, so here I am.

I am a black teacher in my 30s. I studied Creative Writing, I enjoy reading (read Malory’s complete works, twice), If I ever eat a bagel it is either with cream cheese and bacon or cream cheese with lox. Why, because those are the two best damn ways to eat a bagel. I read the Sunday paper; Travel and Real Estate, for all else I watch the morning news (every morning) while sipping green tea. I am passionate about travel, detox, animals, the environment, education, National Parks and Forests, and Sunday gardening.

Here’s the kicker, I grew up in the same undesirable neighborhood (some might call it the ghetto) that I still live in today. The thing is, I don’t believe I am apart of some over-achieving minority among the black race. It is the exact opposite. I know too many black people with similar taste and ideals as my own, to believe otherwise.

We get so wrapped up in the violence and crimes, on the news, committed by blacks, the cop-killing banter in the “thug-life” rap lyrics, and the finger-snapping neck-twirling tongue lashing blacks we see on TV. So much so, that we ourselves start to buy into the idea that all blacks are the same. It is down right disgusting to read comment after comment after comment of ignorance and stereotype. It scares me to think of this blog’s popularity. The countless people who are entertained by it might want to consider a more constructive pastime.

P.S. The watermelon, fried chicken jokes are so misplaced. Those are foods of the South, not foods of black people (unless of course they are from the South). And there is nobody who eats more fried chicken than Paula Dean.

White people may get offended but at least we end up not caring after a while and don’t take it up the ass like some black people do, omg…they just don’t stop talking about things that may or may not be racist, white people personally don’t care about racism, we don’t feel as if we have to overcome it because we know it’s all in peoples heads. lol.

I’m with you. I scroll down and read people’s comments and it frightens me a little bit about how most people seem to have difficulty grasping things about this blog that I take for granted while reading it.

A) Clander et al. aren’t even really talking about ethnically white people as much as they are talking about the young, progressive new school of “socially conscious” city-dwellers. A lot of these people might not even be white-skinned. They just aren’t associated with other ethnic stereotypes by their lifestyle choices.

B) All the posts are under-wrought with sarcasm and irony. I don’t know this for sure, but I’ll bet the authors live a lifestyle that more or less mirrors what is written about in these posts. I know I fit really well into a lot of the items, and I find it really funny.

Ive come on this to the conclusion that the reason white people like all of the shit on this website is the following:
If you got it like that why not experience more with your life.
Shit I golf, snowboard, rockclimb, mountain bike, live in manhattan, drive a fat asS bmw suv, fuck asian women, have plenty of black friends, got sweaters and motherfuckin t-shirts that I’LL wear on a plane to San FraCisco if I damn well fell like it. Shit Ill Even invite my lawyer to my beach house on a sunday for coffee maybe some tea while we read the fuckin New York Times. Yes the Liberal rag that sweats Barack Obama. After that we will indulge in some microbrews on my vintage sail boat.

When I get Bored ill travel the fuck where I want probably to snowboard somewhere usually Utah the whitest fuckin state there is. Ill take in some wine before I watch a film at sundance while I am there.

Just for a challenge I will go to a farmers market get some organic shit go home and order some sushi. You see I am trying to get in shape to run a fuckin marathon. After I finish the first thing I am going to do is shut of my i-pod loaded with free music, grab some bottled water and spark a fat mother fuckin spliff!!!!

YEAH I LOVE BEING AWARE OF DIVERSITY.

HOWEVER THE IRONY OF THIS WHOLE THING IS BEING WHITE FOR ME ONLY FOR ME!!! kICKS BIGTIME ASS!!

The funniest thing about this blog is the fact so many “educated” people get so upset over it. If you have the education you claim to have you would have seen this is just some “kids” saying silly but sometimes seemingly true stuff to piss off/entertain people.

I’m a 25yo black woman and this is one of the only blogs I read on a regular. It’s funny, plain and simple. I share it with all my white friends and we compare thoughts on how white they are according to this blog, hell we joke about how this blog has made me friends with them and earned their respect.

Reading the comments by people who actually get offended and angered by this blog is funnier than the acutal blog content. Refuckinlax people, it isn’t that serious and if you take it as such you deserve to waste minutes out of your short life over something not worth it. Thank you for wasting your time though, b/c it makes my down time at work all the more entertaining.

Heather “…It scares me to think of this blog’s popularity. The countless people who are entertained by it might want to consider a more constructive pastime….” Honestly Heather, get over yourself. Btw, pastimes are meant to entertain without having to be constructive, thus the name “passtime” not “constructive non work related activity”….I feel sorry for the students you teach.

this is all a joke; if it offends you or you think it is a waste of time then don’t read it! stop over-analyzing and realize NO ONE TAKES THIS SERIOUSLY. if i choose to entertain myself by reading jokes made about stereotypes thats my business; why don’t you get a life and stay out of mine?

brilliant, as always, save one thing~
the white people who actually live in new york do read the sports page. ALWAYS. because white people who want to be certain everyone knows they are new yorkers think that watching and reading about sports is somehow equated to being athletic… and, possibly, to differentiate themselves from white people who live in san francisco, who may have forgotten which white people are cooler.

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ahh i do love this. i will be the first to admit it.
in fact, in 2 days, i think i will do just that… its been a while since my last sunday morning nytimes, since i was recently partaking in another white person thing — traveling to a 3rd world country. yah.
where’s that white quiz?
haha

I got the Times free when I was attending college and was bummed when I graduated because I couldn’t obtain it free anymore. While at Starbucks this morning (Sunday) I decided to plunk down the $5 to obtain the behemoth that is the Sunday NY Times. After reading every section (sans the Sports, though I read the Sports section in the Detroit Free Press) I decided to get on the white person bandwagon and get a 7 day subscription.

Wow, I can only imagine what the novel entitled “what hispanics like” how about naming stuff after saints, or wearing tiny gold chains with bible figures on them. Talk about reverse racism and unlike the chapelle show its not even that funny. What white people like #1 coffee??? oh how creative, thats the least funny one in the list. this book sucks

OMG that is so totally my family… except, on Sun morns, my folks usu get donuts – bagels n lox is dinner food, duh! also, my parents are hippies, so throw in a lil green to go w the coffee, donuts, n NY Times… but none of us own shorts…

okay…who has the time to do that? Trustafarians? Lear Jet Liberals? Who? Most normal people are being productive Sunday morning:
-Washing their car
-mowing the lawn
-taking the family out to breakfast (bonding)
-Church
-volunteer somewhere
-work (some people do)
-sleeping late (it is good for you…ya know)
-waking up to a new face after being out late Saturday night

You got that right…you took the words out of my mouth. I retrieve the Sunday Times and at 11:00 P.M. I try and figure out which sections will make it into my bag for the LIRR commuter train ride into Manhattan. Man, I’d love to lounge around on a Sunday…maybe when I’m old, white and retired.

Um, I have lots of time on Sundays. I choose to ignore my garden, housework or anything else remotely productive. Just this past Sunday, I spent a good two hours parked on an Adirondack chair reading the latest issue of Curve magazine which I picked up at…..my local food co-op where I shop every week.

OKAY! Here’s how to be productive in church (since you obviously don’t know), refer to the list above then read below:

– (Wash car) Drive your car to church and either park under the sprinkler, run over the fire hydrant, or pay some bum to spit on it.
– (Mow lawn) pay a neighborhood kid to mow your lawn with the money that you would have put in the collection plate
– (taking family to breakfast) Go to that pancake thingy they usually have after the church service
– (Church) uh…
– (volunteer somewhere) well you are already at church, you might as well volunteer for that pancake thingy as a pancake hander outer.
– (work) bring your crackberry..trust me.
– (sleeping late) this won’t be too hard at church, just wear a “breathe right” strip so you don’t snore.
– (Wake up to a new face) When you wake up after snoozing in the pew, look around for the first hottie you can find. If there is no joy on that, just bring that chicka you met last night to church so she thinks you are wholesome and “serious” (well that may backfire…)

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I dearly like the NYT Book Review. I am too cheap to pay for the whole ball of wax just for the Book Review. One of the book stores around town used to give it away, and it was worth the trip once a week to get a free one. It was a ritual and read to make my day once a week.

are they still printing newspapers???. most newspapers are going out of business because they have been overrun by radical homosexual movements, anti-american policies, anti-military, anti-police, and pro-illegal mexicans into america–that is why these newspapers are going under. Who even read/subscribes to them anymore–but some yocal local libraries. All the “news” info you need can be found for free on the intranet, regardless of your political views, liberal, conservative, green, hassidic, nomadic, etc…

I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????

I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on things like The Sunday New York Times.

Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)

are they still in business??–who reads or cares about newspapers? half the crap they write about is biased, obsessing about homosexuals, anti-military, anti-cop, and loving illegal mexicans–and they wonder why they are dying. How dumb white people. enjoy the titanic.

Wow, I’m a 14 year old Dominican girl and I live in an”ethnic” neighborhood and I think I act like a white person. I bring the New York Times with me to school so I have something to do at lunch. One of the differences between me and white people is that I don’t brag about any of the stuff which I see is a important factor in all this and I can’t stand Macs they suck.

I used to look forward to reading newspapers as a child in the 1980’s when the L.A. times (really boring), the Riverside Press-Enterprise (really lame) and the defunct Indio Daily News (bought by the owner, the Desert Sun) made it fun to read the paper on a nice sunday morning. Kids seem to go to the comics first or the weather page, while my parents when we had a pet bird kept the classifieds or unwanted sections…for obvious reasons. +

I know the cartoon show: Hank Hill is an old school Texan/ southern conservative white guy who works HARD, follows the Bible and has “common sense” when it comes to reality. The series always pokes fun at Yankees, Californians and liberals pouring out of Austin trying to “politically correct” everything in the small town of Arlen. Another conservative but libertarian inspired animation show is South Park with a more satirical or cynical view about politics and culture. +

The center of life, center of town and center of family was the church before the radical 1960’s, and now white people are either non-religious, agnostic or converted into a funky faith from the “mysterious East” but this usually applies in the Northeast, Urban cities in the Midwest or West coast. +

Ok, you passed…you’re white!!! I may got 60% like 1. but not starbucks, 2. the local paper on AOL, 4. rode my bike for 3 miles to get my paycheck stub from work, 7. I own that book but didn’t finish it, 8. has a Livejournal account and 10. I live in a warm climate in sunny Sou. Cal. except most locals are not white nor American . +

LoL, the peeing contest mentality between No. Cal. and So. Cal. elites, but whenever they encounter anyone out of NY or Boston, it’s gonna be a huge gang war turf battle. “YO! Upper East side til I die ‘fo…No asi, its ‘No-Cal where we from….Its bouta Boston baby, we are fo’ real…look out, we homies representin’ west side L.A.” +

Did you read the sign “No Dogs, Coloreds or poor whites not served?” White people have the retro-nostalagic feel for segregation again. I can’t imagine businesses, stores, cafes, housing, schools, public restrooms, movie theatres, water fountains, etc. legally restricted to those of a certain race, this was the way of life for over a century until 1965 when the US civil rights act outlawed the practice. “Hey you cracka, get outta here…we don’t want your kind.” +

Both those sites you mentioned already exist. Everything I’ve read on this blog is good-natured and fun. None of it is hateful. Anyway, white people making fun of white people is more self-conscious than racist.

The white people described come to life in those amazingly smug NY Times commercials. Annoying white people (or light skinned blacks who look like they could attend Lincoln Center festivals) in their neatly decorated Upper East side condos, expressing what the Sunday Times means in their lives. Paul Krugman. Maureen Dowd. Fran Rich. The art reviews. The NY Times crossword puzzle.

amy, are u black or asian? if not, then, yes, it would be racist for u to make a site like this about black or asian ppl. there’s a site called blacksnob written by a black woman, one called angryasianman written by an asian guy and this one is written by a white guy. as a general rule, not belonging to a group precludes you from making a site like this directed toward that group (there are exceptions, but generally speaking…); liken it, for example, to the difference between Jerry Seinfeld making a joke about Jewish culture and Mel Gibson making a joke about Jewish culture.

satirizing one’s own group is–most often–seen as humorous as long as the generalizations aren’t negative or offensive. he’s not making claims that white people have bad characteristics or are in some way immoral–most of these posts are very benign observations of his own culture. lighten up!

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I think the age needs to be scooted up a bit. I am 22 and wht and just read online news. The act of buying the paper and getting up at 8 on a sunday is a bit much for me….. id prefer to sleep in on a sunday and get the headlines from my phone!

I completely agree with most of the generalization because my parents do it, but 22 is young

one of the warning signs to me about the desirability of living in a city used to be whether or not it had the NYTimes available. If it did, I would try to avoid the city like the plague.

I went to school in LA with a lot of rich NY Jewish kids — and they constantly talked about how cool NYC was. I kept trying to urge them to go back to NYC since it was so perfect — but all they wanted to do was stay in LA and make it into another NYC.

Well, to a good degree they did (at least the left side, like the People’s Republic of Santa Monica, Westweird, West Hollyweird, etc).

I live in Minneapolis and here in the TC we have two daily papers. The New York Times is sold here as well which I’ve always found curious seeing as New York is roughly 1000 miles away. A few years ago when I worked at a convenience store I discovered even more about this phenomena, I still remember the double take I did the first time I sold a copy of the Sunday New York Times: “did I read that right??? FIVE DOLLARS??? For a newspaper??? Sheesh!” And every sunday people would come in and buy it when the local Sunday papers are only $1.50. I’ve found out this: ask any non New Yorker why they read the New York Times and they’ll tell you all about how much more enlightened and informative their reporting is, the same way BBC news is superior to our local and national news outlets. So, if you aspire to whiteness, get a New York Times Subscription, watch BBC news and try not to break your arm patting yourself on the back over how educated and informed you are.

I’m not white at all, I’m Trinidadian and I read this while listening to Violin Concerto #3 by Mozart and all the pictures shown on top are all things I enjoy doing and do on a regular basis. So I guess I’m white too…

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White people, well all people, also enjoy http://www.NakedHipster.com. Mainly because the girls are hot and don’t have clothes on. Usually those two things go well together. You know, the hotness and the nakedness.
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This is so true. Nothing beats sitting down and reading the New York Times Sunday Edition for hours in the morning with a coffee. It’s so good even Canadians subscribe to the Times Sunday Edition for home delivery.